Game Reviews
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Signalis Review – Loud and Clear
I said in my Ghost Song review that Humble Games has a remarkably consistent track record of producing games that look like I’ll love them, but that ultimately disappoint. Signalis has finally broken that trend. It’s a survival horror shooter unashamedly in the vein of PS1 games like Resident Evil, though it ditches both tank…
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This Way Madness Lies Review – Brevity is the Soul of Wit
This Way Madness Lies is the latest game from Zeboyd, developers of very silly RPGs like Cthulhu Saves Christmas. Difficult as it is to top that for silliness, I think they’ve managed to do it with a game that is basically the result of cramming Sailor Moon, Shakespeare, and yet more Cthulhu into a particle…
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Vermintide Review – Winning the Rat Race
Vermintide is unashamedly Left 4 Dead. You cooperate with three other players/bots to complete objectives on maps while defending against a horde of basic enemies spawning from every direction. You also have to look out for special enemies who can pin players down, drag them off, create AoE threats, or just be a massive tank.…
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Ghost Song Review – Ephemeral Fun
Ghost Song is the debut game of developer Old Moon and comes from Humble Games, who have a remarkably consistent track record of publishing games that look like I’d love them, but end up being disappointing or even outright bad for one reason or another. GS is a metroidvania with clear specific inspirations from games…
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Frog Detective 3 Review – Third Best Detective
The first Frog Detective was a 30-minute first person adventure that basically amounted to what would happen if a young kid made a detective game. There was a lot of impromptu dancing and other silliness, the characters had the attention span of a particularly distractable kitten, and there weren’t actually any crimes. There wasn’t really…
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Cascadia Review – Home on the Range
Cascadia is essentially a double-layered tile laying game. You have terrain tiles on the bottom and will score points at the end for your largest group of each terrain, plus a bonus if you have the biggest group of that type. Each terrain tile also has 1-3 animals that can be played there, though, and…
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Taiko no Tatsujin: The Drum Master! Review – Incremental Mastery
Taiko no Tatsujin: The Drum Master is the first Taiko game for PC and the first recent game (after the very underwhelming Drum ‘n Fun and ports of two 3DS originals) to be released in the West on anything other than Switch. It was released on Gamepass, which was a good decision for its visibility,…
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Paradise Marsh Review – In Which Frogs Are The Greatest Foe
Paradise Marsh is an exploration game about collecting animals in a swamp. Your primary objective is to catch a certain number of each of twelve swamp-y animals with your net. Each animal has its own behaviors that make it slightly different to catch than any other, and many of them only spawn in specific sorts…
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Merchant of the Skies Review – Profits Sky High
Merchant of the Skies is primarily a trading game of the sort often seen in space games. You’ll sail from port to port buying what’s cheap in one place and selling it where it’s more expensive. As the game progresses, you can take quests to supplement your income and eventually even buy islands to build…
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If On a Winter’s Night, Four Travelers Review – Tollway to Hell
If On a Winter’s Night, Four Travelers is a point-and-click adventure that actually only has three travelers, although the game presumably counts the incredibly short Act IV to arrive at its title. It is a framed narrative in which the travelers tell their stories to an old woman on a train in sequence, and it…
